Less Selfish Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
— Keri Russell
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Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause…
— George Saunders
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My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see…
— Rufus Sewell
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I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the…
— Gladys Taber
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
— Jennifer Egan
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I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
— Anthony Kiedis
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She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated…
— Richard Yates
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But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my…
— David Foster Wallace
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
— Alan Bennett
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Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children -…
— Jessica Valenti
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I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I…
— Veronica Roth
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For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
— Michael Pollan
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I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and…
— Helen Slater
Who Wrote These Less Selfish Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Less Selfish Quotes as follows: